Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will come back to the point I made in the general comments because it is related to pensions. I have no issue with the €190 million extra that must be paid. I am not seeking to make an issue of it. However, it is a substantial amount of money, the equivalent of 15,000 additional pensioners coming out of nowhere. That means there is something wrong with the forecasting or the interrogation of censuses and so forth. Where do an additional 15,000 pensioners appear from to claim the payments? That means somebody is getting the figures wrong. Obviously the State must step in and cover them, but it is a huge figure, especially if it is additional each year, as appears to be the case. There is a new figure each year. There might be a way of explaining that.